Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.comI put this missing-persons story into the “mini mysteries” file, due to the unsettling lack of information surrounding the case. The “Miami Herald,” October 6, 1985:You could set your clock by Irene Matheson.Since Perrine Elementary School opened six years ago, Matheson was always the first person to arrive. She unlocked the cafeteria door at 5:45 a.m., let in the cook at 5:50 a.m. and began baking the rolls, breads, cakes and pies that feed students and faculty at five South Dade schools."She was never late--not once," cafeteria manager Michelle Perkins said Friday. "That's why we know something is terribly, terribly wrong."After hearing the concern of co-workers, Metro-Dade Sgt. Carl Baaske agreed and began an immediate search when Matheson, 69, did not show up for work Tuesday morning.Police usually will not take missing persons reports until the person missing has been gone for 48 hours. This seemed different, Baaske said. "It's as though she dropped off the…